Canada finally has a nationalized Do Not Call registry where you can register your residential numbers (home phone, wireless, VOIP, fax…) to prevent unwanted solicitation from businesses. Telemarketers have 31 days to update their lists to reflect your registration, so do not expect those annoying calls to stop immediately. This free service from CRTC also allows you to file a complaint online against telemarketers.
Due to numerous problems with my previous hosting company, I am in the process of migrating the blog to a new hopefully more reliable webhost. As domain transfer takes a couple of days, you may have some issues reaching this website over the next few days.
Thank you for your patience!
When you can’t beat them, join them! Tim Hortons popular roll-up-the-rim contest is going on right now, and there are many losing entries. Country Style announced it will exchange those losing entries for free medium coffee between March 3 and 9. So now, every rim at Tim Hortons wins something, whether it’s prizes or coffee from a competitor down the street…
Poor Boeing 787 cannot catch a break. First a delay, and now FAA warns it may be vulnerable to hackers. Apparently the computers that provide in-flight entertainment such as internet access and movies, are for no reason networked with the rest of the computers such as navigational control and communications system. It is theoretical for now but it isn’t too farfetched to imagine a hacker sitting in the passenger area, taking control over the airplane. Boeing says it is aware of this issue and is now taking remedial action.
7-Eleven is set to feature another fictional movie product on its retail shelves: Brawndo, the Thirst Mutilator, from Mike Judge’s comedy Idiocracy (which I’ve reviewed here) will be sold by the chain. In the movie, it replaced all the water in the country because it’s got “electrolytes”. The real version of Brawndo that you could purchase soon will contain tangy flavor and 200mg of caffeine, inositol, guarana and of course electrolytes.
You can now purchase Brawndo from your local 7-Eleven stores, or from Brawndo online store located at http://www.drinkbrawndoshop.com/ for a case of 24 at $39.95, and other movie merchandise.
Oh, and this process of turning movie products into real merchandise? Toronto Star is calling it “defictionalization“.
Here’s the first commercial for Brawndo:
 Today is Easter, and as such, a holiday for everyone! So whether Easter means bunnies, eggs or resurrection of Jesus, I wish you all a nice relaxing pleasant day.
Look, I understand Sony and Microsoft aren’t exactly the best friends or lovers since they battle over who has the best gaming console entertainment device out there, but why can’t Sony release updated drivers for Vista?
I’ve been using my USB Memory Stick reader (model MSAC-US2) very well, to transfer pictures from my T10 camera and to properly configure my Aibo. But now that I’ve installed Vista, I realize they don’t have drivers for it!
First of all, requiring a driver for a memory card reader? Preposterous! Microsoft not having drivers? Inconceivable! Sony not release proper drivers to its hardware? Completely unforgivable!
One of the primary benefits of Bluetooth technology is wireless headsets, and there are already a lot of varieties out there. Samsung’s new WEP 420 is designed by the purveyor of minimalistic and overpriced electronics Bang & Olufsen. As such, the new headset is incredibly sleek and comes with a huge charging stand that they claim could be used as an “interior decoration item”. I’m not so sure about that, but it won’t look totally out of place on a professional’s desk! *wink*
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